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There are two kinds of semantic theories of anaphora. Some, such as Heim’s File Change Semantics, Groenendijk and Stokhof’s Dynamic Predicate Logic, or Muskens’ Compositional DRT (CDRT), seem to require full coindexing of anaphora and their antecedents prior to interpretation. Others, such as Kamp’s Discourse Representation Theory (DRT), do not require this coindexing and seem to have an important advantage here. In this squib I will sketch a procedure that the first group of theories may help themselves to so that they can interleave interpretation and coindexing in DRT’s way.
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I would like to thank Corien Bary, one of whose many excellent questions about using Compositional DRT in theorizing about aspect in Ancient Greek led me to write this squib. See Bary (2009) for some of her results. The anonymous referees provided me with first-rate feedback.
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Muskens, R. A squib on anaphora and coindexing. Linguist and Philos 34, 85–89 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-011-9091-8
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